Friday, March 12, 2010

"Catch up Ole Miss"

I was sitting at home watching the movie "Milk", by the way is a pretty good movie if you can stomach boys touching boys. It stars Sean Penn and James Franco. Its about the first, elected, openly gay public official in the U.S. In the movie it showed the struggles and discrimination of gays during the late 50's-70's, but mostly the campaign of gay activist and politician Harvey Milk. While watching it I was thinking how far gays and lesbians has come along with legalization of gay marriages in more states.
Until, I read a lesbian teen in Mississippi, was told that her school's entire prom would be canceled if she brings her girlfriend and wear a tux. The kids were given instructions to only bring someone of the opposite sex. Since the teen is not complying with the school orders now its a law suit. After seeing this I was like dang, maybe they haven't came as far as I thought. I started reading some of the comments left by other viewers of this article and I was sure of it, people still have hatred for this group of people.
I would rather not repeat the comments because I don't condone discrimination. Unless you owe me money then you every name in the book. Seriously there were several mean spirited comments; whether you straight, gay, black, white or whoever. So now the question is whose right or wrong?
First, I want to start by saying I am not the sweet baby Jesus or the Father, so I don't have the answer but merely an opinion. I would like to thank the teen for standing up for something. I just thought kids these days wanted to swag surf, be futuristic, and think like Taylor Swift when your 15. No offense Taylor I love that song. I don't care if it is about the right to dance and kiss another girl in public. She stand for something instead of falling for anything like so many.
However I feel that it is unfair to the rest of the students that they can not enjoy a tradition. Especially when the teens are not close minded to the idea of the girls sexual preference but more upset because they can't party.
I don't know how it feel to be gay, but we all can relate to being stereotyped and outcast for one thing or another. I clearly remember how painful of experience it can be. So I can only imagined being ridicule for a preference or feelings that you may or may not be able to control. So here are the questions to such a controversial dilemma:
When did it become the school business who someone is intimate with?
When did we start teaching kids not to love thy neighbor despite our differences? ( Then wanna know why Johnny committed a hate crime)
What happen to freedom of speech or expression?

Overall, I feel we could learn to agree to disagree, educate one another about each other views, and not to hate and segregate. I am a sinner and can't judge. I know I will have to report one day to who I believe in; and with that I know the guidelines he has laid out for me to be with him eternally. So for whatever you believe in I hope the decisions you make now, is in preparation for where you want to be later.

P.S. I don't care for public display of affection of any kind straight or gay, so let's save it for yo mama couch.

1 comment:

  1. I think it's sad to punish a whole school because of someone's sexual preference. It's no one's business what we do in our personal lives but yet jobs spend some of their time making fake Facebook pages and Twitter accounts just to spy on us and make judgement about how they will treat us. On another note I also dislike how I see a lot of gays "promoting" being gay. Gay bumper stickers, braclets, or bio's saying I'm bi, just thought you should know. Who cares what you are? Would it be the same feeling if I walked around with a shirt saying I'M STRAIGHT or bumper stickers saying OPPOSITE SEX RULES? Food for thought.

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